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Happy Easter!

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We told Owen he had to wait for us to come get him in the morning, otherwise he likely would have found all the eggs before Katie even got out of bed! (We also said it in case we didn’t get around to hiding the eggs before bed and Tom had to do it in the morning.)

Every time Katie opened an M&M, it went straight into her mouth. 🙂

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A “fused” photo so I had one without Owen’s tongue sticking out. 🙂

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Some fancy twirling in her new tutu. And we have NO idea where Owen got the “I’m going to text my friends” bit. NO IDEA.

Katie has started taking after Owen with the crazy faces when I’m trying to take a picture.

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The ears didn’t fit Owen at all so it was only a matter of time before this happened!

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Since it’s Easter, I thought I’d pull out a pretty hand-me-down dress from the Beson girls—and of course Katie LOVES it! She kept saying “It’s so BEAUTIFUL! Look at my beautiful dress!” 🙂

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And the best two:

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And since she was dressed up, and we were actually all getting dressed to go out on errands, we took a family picture!

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T-ball practice!

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It was sunny but windy and chilly. 

  

Katie: Mama, look at that pillow on the floor.
Me: ???
Another T-ball mom: The base.
Me: Ahhhhh.

Enjoying some cuddle time.

They learned the different positions, practiced some fielding, and each had a practice at-bat:

Tom was helping on the field and said it was like herding cats. Yep, that was exactly what I had been thinking. 🙂

   

They have had five scheduled practices. Owen missed one due to our vacation and two have been canceled due to weather…so he will be playing his first game only having had two practices. It’s going to be a HOT MESS. 🙂

Kidisms 7

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Katie had the iPad on the road trip home.
Katie: Mom, there’s no triangle button.
Me: What?
Katie: There’s no triangle!
Yep, she was watching a movie and it was paused and the play (triangle) button had disappeared!

Katie: I want to give you a hug.
Owen: Fine. Here’s your hug. Now go.

Katie: My beautiful dress has sparkles and glittery on it!

I’m apparently raising a rebel.
Owen sees the sign, reads it, then says: Ha! I’m standing in the fire lane!

Katie at the playground:

Owen was pretending he had to go to work but then I heard:
Oh! My general isn’t here today so I have the day off.
Tom loved that one!

Owen’s first T-ball practice

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He actually missed the first practice since we were on vacation, but this was HIS first practice. He was VERY excited.

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Running the bases before practice!

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The ages of the team are 5/6 but Owen is honestly a full foot taller than most of them! Most of the kids are about the size of Katie!! (I think there’s another age 5/6 team but it’s for kids that have previous experience.)

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Katie was a great cheerleader! “Owen, good job practicing. Keep practicing with daddy! Good practicing!”

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Throwing drill:

Katie does whatever her big brother does—she was throwing pine cones at the fence just like Owen was throwing balls at the fence!

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Getting their team hats and shirts! They’re the Raptors!

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Last trip to the beach!

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Looking up at a plane going by. We saw lots of jets and planes and helicopters the whole week!

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She didn’t go in the water much, but when she did, she did some STOMPING and SPLASHING!

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The one thing she liked to do? Throw shovels full of sand into the water. Yes, kids are strange.

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And a fun screenshot I saw while I was editing the video:

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It was impressive watching the beach guys carrying in the chairs in the evening.

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Night flyers and breaking rules

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I had bought these night flyer toys back when we had a big yard (as they can fly up to 200′) but never used them—and our house isn’t really conducive to anything more than 10′—so figured a beach vacation would be the perfect opportunity. 🙂 Tom thought we should do them in the parking lot so they didn’t end up as garbage in the ocean…but after about 10-15 minutes or so, someone came out and told us we couldn’t do it in the parking lot due to liability. Whatever. We were pretty much done by then so we just went inside. But the kids LOVED them and had a great time!

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Birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese

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Tom usually has birthday party duty but since he’s gone it fell to me. And of course I had to take Katie as well—so it was her first trip to Chuck E. Cheese.

Fortunately, it wasn’t nearly as crazy as I thought it would be. Of course it was Chuck E. Cheese so it was a little bit crazy but overall it wasn’t bad.

Katie’s skee ball style:

The Clifford ride it was super tame and she looked pretty bored…so the next one moved more and she quickly said “DONE. DONE!!”

Then it was time for lunch and the birthday show (Chuck E. Cheese comes out). Katie was EXCITED. She’s saying “CHUCK E. CHEEEEESE!” 🙂

Redeeming tickets!

And then it was time to head home. This is the toy Owen picked—a tiny blow up sword (which she said was his favorite thing about the whole day, LOL).

And a mustache tattoo he got in his gift bag:

And these were the cards we had printed! (I think these were the best deal of the whole place—one card for one token!)



Both kids had a great time!



A jumping morning!

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We were there a few minutes early and were able to skip the line because I’d bought tickets a few days earlier…so we had to wait a few minutes for the floor to open.

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Look! BLOCKS!

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Can you find Katie?

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And mere seconds later after I stopped recording…some kids pushed it over and I got this shot:

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I love the “flying” shots!

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Meanwhile, in the non-toddler dodgeball section…our poser. 🙂

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Katie peed on the potty!

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We haven’t officially started potty training yet, but every now and again we will ask Katie if she wants to pee or poop on the potty. Sometimes she wants to but nothing happens and other times she wants nothing to do with any of it.

But tonight when Tom asked her she said yes! And then actually proceeded to tinkle!

We all made a big deal about it and she got to pick a toy from the toy bin! I think Owen was most excited, getting out the toy selection and picking her toy—until we told him she got to pick her own toy! To his credit, he was still excited for her!

She picked those growing capsule animals:

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Of course I’m not expecting anything to come of this. Owen did the same thing and then it was another two years (!) before he was actually potty trained.